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LANDER: Zoo - IMED 9526 - £12.50 LE BARON, ANNE: Rana, Ritual & Revelation - MODE 30 - £12 5 pieces by harpist and composer Le Baron. 4 Chamber pieces and one for Harp and Tape. Guests David Shea, Jim Staley and George Cartwright also appear. Interesting and unusual works. LE BARON, ANNE: The Musical Railism of... - MODE 42 - £12 LE GOFF, PHILLIPPE: Titakti - IMED 9524CD - £7.24 LEJEUNE: Le Cantique des Cantiques - INA C1011 - £15.50 Voice-based electronic work. LIEUTENANT CARAMEL: same - MKCD 001 - £8.30 LINDBLAD, RUNE: Death of the Moon - POGUS 21011-2 - £12 Interesting early (1953-60) concrete-electronic work by the radically ignored Lindblad. Now for the first time available on record. Important piece of the history jigsaw. LUCIER, ALVIN: Silver Streetcar - ALGENCD 120 - £8.30 Next in the occasional 7cm series for solo triangle comprising about 20 minutes of continuously pulsed triangle with tiny variations in dynamic, tempo and timbre. Remarkable, in its way. LUNDBERG, TOMMIE: Blow - FYCD 1001 - £12.50 M, ERIK: Frame (7cm) - MKCD 026 - £6.50 Interesting, cannibalistic, 19 minute piece comprising materials taken from MKCD's 003-025. MALEC, IVO: Dopio Coro, Artemisia - MUSIDISC 245052 - £31 Founding acousmaticist with an historic, but to my ears, mixed bag of a collection. Some fine pieces. MARCHETTI: Meu - MKCD 007 - £4.25 Extremely interesting structure of spaces, discreet sounds and distances; excellent and unusual use of the voice. Also of echoes and reverbs to distinguish and bind discontinuous short sounds. Excellent. MARTUSCIELLO, MAURIZIO: Unsettled Line - 7cm mini-CD - MKCD 027 - £6 This is a very fine piece. Stark contrast, minimal structure, beautiful articulation. Highly unusual; it happens. Excellent. (MM also works with Ossatura). MINARD, ROBIN: Silent Music - EDRZ 1007 - £12 Sound Artist RM presents two quiet, minimal, pieces: light modulating peeps and white noise/water. Very nicely done and well presented informative booklet with images from Minard's installations. The real thing. MINJARD/ FAURE, LAURAS/FORT ETC.: Histoires Invisibles - GMVL CD 09 - £12.50 6 acousmatic works by leading lights of the Groupe de Musiques Vivantes de Lyon (GMVL). These are 'narrative' pieces, after a fashion, highly individual and beautifully made. Especially interesting Minjard and Garcia. Fine work. MION, PHILIPPE: Leone - IMED 9632 - £12.50 MOENNE-LOCCOZ, PHILIPPE: Limites - C&C mg02 - £12 Dense, complex pieces, for electroacoustics, real instruments and field recordings. With a contemporary music aesthetic. MORPHOGENESIS: Formative Causation - SPOR 02 - £11.50 Electronic/AMM/Contemporary. Serious proposition. MUSICA ELETTRONICA VIVA: The Sound Pool - SPALAX 14969 - £12.50 Reissue of the 1969 concert originally released on BYG. More historic than shocking today. But an important document for afficianados. Interesting to compare with contemporaries AMM. MUSICIANS ACCORD: Chamber Music/Voice - MODE 23 - £12 MUZYKA CENTRUM: same - DBC02 - £12 A rare collection of contemporary music from Poland for traditional instruments, voices, tape, electronics, computers, samples. Astonishingly varied and lively. Sometimes like the best improvised music, sometimes near Techno or stretched electric Jazz, then clearly c.20 serious music, and two minutes later a rich and unusual programme, and an eye opener. For instance the piece for charango, computer and tape. Highly recommended. VERY LIMITED SUPPLY Mystere Vol 4: - AM 070 - £12.75 Sampler/compilation NEW MUSIC VOL 1: Xenakis,Risset, Rubin, Scelsi, Korde etc - X450-71 - £12 NEW MUSIC VOL 2: Reynolds, Berio, Cogan, Scelsi, Fernyhough - X450-72 - £12 NEWBAND: Partch/Cage/LaBarbara/Drummond - MODE 18 - £12 Includes the rarely recorded early Studies on ancient Greek scales. NEWBAND: Partch/Rosenblum/Monk etc - MODE 33 - £12 NICHOLAS, ALWYN: Electronic Dance Music - CRI CD 651 - £12 Circa 1966-89, fascinating rhythmic contemporary electronic music that sounds more like a slightly straighter version of The Residents than anything else. Highly engaging skate across a lot of musical borders and a document of another maverick composer. One of a kind. LIMITED SUPPLY NOETINGER, JEROME: Gloire a... - MKCD 005 - £4.25 Inc. The Work sampled. NORIOT-LEONCE PETITOT PRIZEWINNER: Vol 4 - MUSIDISC 245752 - £15.50 Bouhalassa, Smith, Camilleri La Fuente, Tremblay, Bejarano, Moore. NORIOT-LEONCE PETITOT PRIZEWINNERS: Vol 3 - MUSIDISC 244992 - £15.50 NORMANDIEU, ROBERT: Tangram - IMED 9419/20 - £12.50 New work. Fewer environments and more extrapolations and assemblages from small samples. And plundered Mozart. Two versions (2 CD's) a multitrack 'live' stereo version for home listening and a studio mix for 'concert diffusion'. NORMANDIEU, ROBERT: Lieux Inouis - IMED 9002 - £12.50 NOW AND PRESENT FLUTE, THE: Inc.Boulez, Carter, Perle, Mart - X450-88 - £12 NUIX, JEP: Intervals - NCM 2 - £12 Excellent collection of pieces by Spanish Composer Nuix. Tape pieces and works for guitar, orchestra and small ensemble. OHM - THE EARLY GURUS OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC: Various artists - 3 CDs and book - CD3670 - £25 A classic collection of pieces spanning 1948-1980 (a couple of works - for Theremin and Ondes Martinot - were written earlier, but the recordings are recent). Excellently curated by Jason Gross to include most of the names you would expect to see: Pierre Shaeffer, John Cage, Herbert Eimert, Otto Luening, Hugh le Caine, Louis & Bebe Barron, Oskar Sala, Edgard Varese, Richard Maxfield, Tod Dockstader, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Milton Babbitt, MEV, Raymond Scott, Steve Reich, Pauline Olivieros, Morton Subotnik, David Tudor, Terry Riley, Luc Ferrari, Milton Babbitt, Francois Bayle, Jean Claude Risset, Iannis Xennakis, La Monte Young, Charles Dodge, Paul Lansky, Laurie Spiegel, Bernard Pamegiani, and others - chronologically arranged. A fascinating aural journey through a vibrant and exploratory period populated with many ideas and alternative approaches. A good number of the classics are represented here and, interestingly, the track order winds up telling another surprising tale - the last few tracks on the 3rd CD (representing the last years of the 70's) to me eloquently document a kind of entropy; a descent into species of drones. It also includes names stupidly added by Ellipsis for commercial rather than artistic reasons, not least that of Brian Eno (who with Jon Hassel and Klaus Schulze belongs to a different story and a world remote from that of the early pioneers). Eno was wheeled in to write the introduction too (anecdotal and anodyne, depriving us of a more useful one by the set's compiler), while his obligatory piece, shoehorned in, doesn't actually fall into the designated period. It's a shame - if typical - that Ellipsis, for the sake of shifting units, muddy what could have been a great historical document with mis-informative and irrelevant matter and exclude what would have been essential: a linking overview of the unfolding of the form. Sensibly, Jason commissioned the artists themselves, or people close to the artists or informed commentators to write the individual notes - all of which are are good - but there is nothing to hold the whole story together. In lieu of contextualisation, Ellipsis spot the 100 page book with large-type quotes from DJ Spooky, David Toop, Thurston Moore, Bill Laswell, Peter Namlook, Simon Reynolds and other "name" commentators - a page each - which although fine in themselves, in light of their size and prominence and in the absence of anything else, seem to indicate that the pioneers were just the stumbling forbears of today's electronic dance and club aesthetics. However, if you ignore this unfortunate spoiling by the company, the collection itself is indispensable and highly recommended. Even the evidence of the exhaustion of the form provides illuminating food for thought. 3 CDs and 100pp book in a clear case. Classic. And cheap. O'ROURKE, JIM: Rules of Reduction - MKCD 009 - £4.25 Jim as known. Another interesting assembly OLIVEIRA, JOAO PEDRO: Electronic & Computer Compositions - NUM 01 - £12 Sound pieces in the older post-concrete tradition, but well done and very listenable. OLIVEIRA, JOCY DE: Inori, A Prostituta Sagrada - XReR BJOCD - £11 OLIVEROS, PAULINE: St George, In Memoriam, Mr Whitney - MODE 40 - £12 OLIVIEROS, PAULINE: Electronic Works - PD 04 - £12 PAPE, GERHARD: Chamber Works - MODE 25 - £12 PARKINS, ZEENA: Nightmare Alley - TOTE 1 - £12 At last a solo album from Zeena where she plays only harps, acoustic and electric. These are studio recordings. Meditation, violence, noise, lyricism, radical electronic treatment - and a good chance to listen to what the instrument can do. See also ReR PARMEGIANI, BERNARD: Rouge-Morte, Thanatos &c (Dbl). - INA C1012/3 - £31 Dbl - Vol 1, as BP says in his note is from the age of sewing (scissors) - tape editing concrete techniques. An excellent selection confronting played, electronic, concrete and environmental sound. DEDANS DEHORS is a classic..Vol 2 is from the age of mouse (computer) construction. Electronic and computerworks. PARMEGIANI, BERNARD: Le Creation de la Monde - INA C1002 - £15.50 PARMIGIANI /BAYLE: Divine Comedie (dbl) - MUSIDISC 245372 - £31 The 2 giants set up their Heaven and Hell. PARTCH, HARRY: See also books, video PARTCH, HARRY: Enclosure 2 (4cds) - INNOVA 401 - £26.75 PARTCH. HARRY: Enclosure Five (3 CD BOX and Book) - IMMOVA 404 - £24.90 PARTCH, HARRY: Collection Vol 1 - CRI CD 751 - £12 PARTCH, HARRY: Collection Vol 2 - CRI CD 752 - £12 PARTCH, HARRY: Collection Vol 3 - CRI CD 753 - £12 PARTCH, HARRY: Collection Vol 4 - CRI CD 754 - £12 PARTCH, HARRY: The Bewitched - CRI CD 7001 - £12 PERCUSSION ART QUARTET: X-Pression - CTH 2290 - £11 Good collection: Richard Trythall's rare and excellent 'Bolero', Armin Weigert's in your face 'stick attack' , a fine 'organised' piece by the ensemble for very left field objects and experimental sound production, plus a rare percussion work by Alfred Schnittke and Peter Sculthorpe's 'Sun Song' I/II. PETITGAND, DOMINIQUE: 10 Petites Compositions Familiales - MKCD 021 - £4.25 PIMENTA: Digital Music - MODE 21 - £12 PIONEERS OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC: American Masters - CRI CD 611 - £12 The American legends: Ussachevsky, Luening, Arel, Davidovsky, plus I each from Smiley and Shields. Includes some of the very earliest US concrete experiments (1952-6), Ussachevsky's famous 'Piece for Taperecorder' and some excellent later computer music. Historical interest as well as some world class pieces. Good, informative booklet. POVALL, RICHARD: Impossible Rags - FP 005 - £12 An extremely interesting and listenable suite of 4 early Rags stretched and twisted, rearticulated and embellished through the medium of disklavier programming. Reminiscent sometimes of Conlan Nancarrow, but essentially different in approach, though equally 'unplayable'. A well conceived, well realised project which updates the player piano. Also includes Enclosure, for electronics. PRIME, MICHAEL: Aquifiers - RRR- CD-09 - £12 Solid and considered work for electronics, concrete and environmental sound - similar ground to that recently occupied by Jim O' Rourke. Beautifully recorded and nicely wrapped. PUGILESE, MICHAEL: Percussion Works - MODE 25 - £12 RADIGUE, ELAINE: Biogenesis - MKCD 018 - £4.25 REDOLFI: Appel D'Air - INA C2005 - £15.50 Desert sounds, assembled from concrete recordings in the Mojave. Draws you in - a kind of ultra-radical wallpaper music; sometimes extreme and always somehow on the point, never redundant. Like much of this music a dark room opens a new ear. Also includes Pacific Tubular Waves.. the LP has this and another piece but not Deserts. And it comes with a 3-D cover and red-green glasses. On 'Appel' MR turns from water to the sounds of air - transformed. REIBEL, GUY: Granulations etc. - MUSIDISC 244972 - £15.50 RELACHE: Works by TENNEY, ALBERT, EPSTEIN - MODE 22 - £12 REYNOLDS, ROGER: Works - X450-73 - £12 Excellent collection including a CLASSIC from Paul Lansky and a number of other very good works. RISSET, JEAN-CLAUDE: Sud-Dialogues - INA C1003 - £15.50 SUD - a little in the realm of Redolfi's 'Desert Tracks', based on sounds recorded in the Massif des Calanques, processed and transformed. DIALOGUES - for flute, percussion, piano and tape - a music of confusion and transformations. INHARMONIQUE - for electronics and voice, MUTATIONS - tapework, again echoes of Redolfi. A fine collection. RODRIGUE, MARIO: Alchimie - IMED 9415CD - £7.24 5 excellent pieces. Complex, exquisitely clear and dynamically formed. Curious deconstructed 'musical elements' emerge occasionally and environmental snatches. The structural sensibility is very contemporary and not at all academic. A nice piece of work altogether. ROLL, KRISTOFF K: Corazon Road - IMSO 9303CD - £12.50 A sound documentary (with map) of a trip in Central America. Sounds, speech, electronic ground. ROLL, KRISTOFF K: A Travailleurs de la Nuit - MKCD 024 - £4.25 ROY, STEPHAN: Kaleidos - IMED 96 - £7.24 RUSSELL, WILLIAM: Complete Works - MODE 34 - £12 8 unusual and idiosyncratic Percussion pieces by unsung but influential composer and collaborator with Henry Cowell and John Cage, whose first percussion piece was premiered by Slonimsky at the same concert as was Varese's Ionisation. The 1937 piece that finishes the CD is scored for brake drums, pipes, suitcase, tin cans and found objects. American through and through and an important historic compilation. Revised by Russell and newly played by Essential Music. RUTTMANN, WALTER: Weekend - MKCD 010 - £4.25 The legendary CLASSIC prophetic early Concrete (pre Schaeffer) Radio work. This is history. Congratulations to Metamkine for this. RUTTMANN, WALTER and Others: Weekend Mix - Intermedium rec 003 - £12 The celebrated 1930 sound collage, and 6 remixes – by Ernst Horn, DJ Spooky, Mick Harris, John Oswald, Klaus Buhlert and to recoco rot. Nice presentation and useful book. SCHAEFFER, PIERRE: L'Ouvre Musicale (3 CDs) - MUSIDISC 292572 - £31 At last reissued the 3 CD set of PS's complete works. Not sure how long they will be in print this time. SCHEIDT, DANIEL: Action/Reaction - IMED 9105CD - £12.50 5 pieces for performer and interactive computer system, where the performer's imput is crucial. All these pieces were developed with the performers (Percussionist, clarinettist, singer, bassclarinet and trombone George Lewis. 'Working with software offers extreme flexibility while at the same time requiring the articulation of creative intent in precise and unambiguous terms'. DS. SCHOLZ, CARTER: 8 pieces - FP08 - £12 8 austere and consequent computer pieces, conceptually minimal but richly realised. Miniatures that focus tightly on aspects variously of complex intonation, timbre, rhythm and harmony. SCHVARTZ, HAYDEE: New Piano: Part, Scelsi, Cage, Berio - MODE 31 - £12 SCHWARZ, JEAN: Quatre Vingts - MUSIDISC 245322 - £15.50 Very Contemporary - sliced noise, channel hopping, genre twisting, Big-Fi (eg SHIT FM). Highly Recommended. SCHWARZ, JEAN: Makinak-Capriccio - MUSIDISC 245332 - £15.50 SCHWARZ, JEAN: The Sea Maid's Music. - INA C3003 - £15.50 SCHWARZ, JEAN: Quatre Saisons - INA C1004 - £15.50 SCOTT, RAYMOND: Manhattan Research Inc. Dbl CD and Book - Basta 98702 - £20 2 CDs in a hard bound 148 page (colour) book, beautifully illustrated and laid out, well documented. What to say about this extraordinary document? Raymond Scott, best known as a bandleader and composer whose quintet performed fast and furious pieces - many of which found their way into Bugs Bunny cartoons - was also an inventor and pioneer of electronic instruments (Sequencers, Bass line Generator, Elektronium, Clavivox, Bandito the bongo artist), ran electronic R&D for Motown and produced a significant amount of electronic music for soundtracks, commercials, demonstration purposes - and for the hell of it. Many of the pieces painstakingly assembled here have never been heard outside Scott's studios. Musical content. Stranger than Negativland, stranger than fiction are the real commercial's of the late 50's and early 60's that were the bread and butter work of Manhattan Research, making much of this collection more post modern than post modern. I mean some of these pieces are deeply odd, others breathtakingly kitschy. And so much great copy-writing. A minute is the average length. Sometimes Raymond talks about the pieces (from lectures). It says a lot about the "future" as conceived in the late 50's and early 60's. Then there are demonstration recordings, work tapes and experimental extracts featuring some of RS's many invented electronic instruments (he designed the first sequencer in 1960 - way ahead of the game - which like another great pioneer, Les Paul, he first kept to himself. Then there are short film soundtracks and instrumental pieces - in the Forbidden Planet vein (or even electro-poppy) rather than art-electronic, but still using state of the art technology and techniques. So much that seems contemporary is already stated here, and sometimes what is achieved is up to and beyond any art electronics of the period. Still the approach is always popular, if sometimes warped. This collection hits on so many levels: musical, experimental, sociological, historical that it is impossible to exaggerate it's importance. And it makes great listening. The book is superb and the research impressive. This is a thing of beauty, of history and of strangeness. It's not stunning but it is incomparable: a glimpse into one eccentric life. Priceless. And cheap. SHEPHERD, MEG/ALCIDES LANZA: Transmutations - ESP 9601CD - £12 SIMS, EZRA: The Microtonal Music of.. - CRI CD 643 - £12 5 pieces - for clarinet and string quartet; small ensemble and computer; cello; flute and electronics; small orchestra. The compositional premiss is a division of 72 parts to the octave. This is a music with a deep logic, which you can hear. Even if there seems to be nothing going on, after a while you've heard a whole lot. Subtle and satisfying. Highly unorthodox. SMALLEY, DENNIS: Impacts Interieurs - IMED 9209CD - £12.50 New Zealand electroacoustic composer. A music of spatial perspectives, concentration on the 'interior' of sounds, 'spectromorphology' (the shaping of sound spectra through time) and timbral extremes. Demands concentration and makes few concessions, but cleans the ears. SMITH, RANDALL: L'Orielle Voit - IMED 9416CD - £7.24 Very convincing compositions, unusually rhythmically sophisticated (not as a beat but as organic deployment of timed accent) Some very successful and uniquely soundprinted pieces. Turn-out-the-light acousmatics. Solfege de l'Objet Sonore: (3 CDs + Book) - MUSIDISC 292582 - £31 3 CD's and a full book in a box of the long deleted LP set that accompanied Pierre Schaeffer's definitive book "Traite des objets musicaux" in 1967. A kind of lecture with a lot of sound examples - consists of speech (in French, short sentences mostly - all translated in the book into English and Spanish) and the sounds, raw and cooked. SONIC CIRCUITS: International Festival of Electroacoustic Music - Innova 116 - £12.50 A varied and excellent collection of pieces by Jose Halac, Mark Applebaum, Mario Verandi, Mike Frengel, Thomas Gerwin, Christina Agamanolis, Timothy Oesau, Hedeko Kawamoto. Notable are Applebaum's Dead White Males Remix and Verandi's Figuras Flam, encAS, but altogether a fine collection. SPARLING, KENT: Route Canal Diary - 00CM-471 - £12 Minimal, rhythmic, electroacoustic. SPEACH, BERNADETTE: Without Borders - MODE 16 - £12 STEINER, ETKIN, LANZA, VALCARCEL: New Music from the Americas 1 - ESP 9301CD - £12.50 7 works. 3 by Gitta Steiner - for percussion trio, marimba, vibraphone; the other 4 by South American composers - making this already a valuable resource - Etkin and Lanza are from Buenos Aires and Valcarcel from Peru. This last particularly interesting. Some Tapework too. SUSSE, ULRICH: Komposition mit Elektronik - FCD368318 - £12.50 Subtitled 'Compositions with Compositions', these are 4 longish pieces for tapework, live instruments and real-time processing, including some impressive coups de son, especially the luminous 'Zwischen Fruhlung und Herbst' for String orchestra, Organ and Tape which winds Vivaldi around itself and interpolates and extrapolates extra materials in a form that is never less than radical and gripping; a classic, textbook piece. The other pieces pursue similar musical interleaving of electronic, manipulated and baroque elements, 'critical reflections on the music of the past today', as Susse explains it. Useful and full notes included TENNEY, JAMES: Selected Works 1961-69 - FP 001/ART 1 - £12 First proper collection from one of the Pioneers. Includes the legendary Plunderphonic 'Blue Suede'. See also Musicworks Below. TERRUGI, DANIEL: Syrcus- Sphaera - MUSIDICSC244722 - £15.50 Syrcus is especially interesting for its highly unusual percussion sounds (Boobama, Ududrum &c). THIBAULT, ALAIN: Volt - IMED 9003CD - £12.50 Zappa, RockJazz, Speedmetal, Orchestral Modernity all wrapped in breathless synthesised complexities. Varied but with a throughgoing sameness. Interesting techniques (prodigious) but for me the least successful of these collections. THIBAULT/DUBOIS: Ne Blamez pas les Bedouins - IMSO 9202CD - £12.50 |
| SERIES: TOC. Bernhard Gunther's label dedicated to sound on CD that is not music in any sense I've ever encountered, not Electronic or Concrete or Industrial, as these terms are normally
understood, though they are always highly abstract and concerned with extremes of various sorts - and not 'wall of sound'; this is more like Webern than Throbbing Gristle - but there is a
predominance of low frequency drones. It's a form radically emergent out of recording technology - easier to say what it is not than what it is. These are listed together for the experimenters and
researchers amongst you; I think there is something going on here, but I can't always say that I like it... Uniform series packaging.
TOC. DUNCAN, JOHN/BERNARD GUNTHER: Home, Unspeakable - TOC 964 - £12.50 See above TOC.DUNCAN, JOHN/MAX SPRINGER: The Crackling - TOC 961 - £12.50 See above TOC.LOPEZ, FRANCISCO: Warzawa Restaurant - TOC 951 - £12.50 See above TOC.LOPEZ, FRANCISCO: Belle Confusion 996 - TOC 993 - £12.50 See above TOC.MEELKP, ROEL: 9 Holes in the Head - TOC 962 - £12.50 See above TOC.MENCHE, DANIEL: Legions in the Walls - TOC 953 - £12.50 See above TOC.RIW: Revue et Corrige - TOC 954 - £12.50 See above TOC.TAYLOR, B: From the Moon - TOC 971 - £12.50 See above |
| TRESBASS: - order by name - £12 Compositions for Electric Bass, Acoustic Bass and Bass, Tenor and Soprano Saxes. TURCOTTE, ROXANNE: Amore - IMED 9413CD - £7.24 Impressionistic sound narratives. Other peoples' lives and Romance. Non literal and then concrete - for instance in the well managed telephone section. Bugging with static. Commerce crashes in on intimacy. Unusual employment of rhythm and media samples for the genre. University of Minnesota Symphonic Wind Ensemble: BLUE DAWN INTO WHITE HEAT Dbl CD - INNOVA 517 - £16.60 A remarkably diverse and interesting collection of pieces By Gunther Shuller, Elliot Schwartz, Jeffrey Brooks, Michael Colgrass, Jeffrey Brooks, Steven Stucky, Anthony Plog and John Zdecklik. It says File under Classical, 20th Century, but there is almost Rock, Almost Jazz, almost Free Jazz here as well. USSACHEVSKY, VLADIMIR: Music of... - CRI CD 813 - £12 Europe pioneered Musique Concrete and Electronic Music in radio Studios, while in the USA it was tape music in Universities. The pioneer at Columbia-Princeton (1952) was Ussachevsky. Here at last collected are some of these pieces (earliest 1957 so not the oldest, but the oldest are very clunky), the 1960's electronicised choir piece "Three Scenes from the Creation" and the later "Missa Brevis". The first six tracks are historic and indispensable for any student of the form, as well as being fine pieces. VANDEGORNE: Tao - IMED 9311CD - £12.50 VANDFORNE/LAMBERSY: Le Ginkgo - IMSO 9504 - £12.505 VARIOUS: Excitations - IMED 0050 - £12 Concrete, Electroacoustic, Acousmatic. A very useful sampler. Fine pieces by Dhomont, Dufort, Normandieu, Westerkamp, Barrett, Dolden, Vande Gorne, Gobeil, Shryer, K. Roll, Tremblay, Le Goff, Calon, Daoust, Hedas, Harrisson, Smith, Bouhlassa, Moore, Chion and Tutschku. A very good introduction into this corner of the field. VARIOUS ARTISTS: Noriot-Leonce Petitot Prize Vol 1 - NOR 1 - £15.50 5 pieces by Duchenne, Tremblay, Ascion, Donato, Ryer - the prizewinners of the Acousmatic Competition Noriot- Leonce Petitot 1989. VARIOUS ARTISTS: Noriot-Leonce Petitot Prize Vol 2 - NOR 2 - £15.50 VARIOUS ARTISTS: Noriot-Leonce Petitot Prize Vol 3 - MUSIDISC 244992 - £15.50 VARIOUS ARTISTS: Noriot-Leonce Petitot Prize Vol 4 - MUSIDISC 245752 - £15.50 VARIOUS ARTISTS: Haydee Schvartz - MODE 31 - £12 VENI ENSEMBLE, THE: Veni - SF 00042131 - £12 6 pieces by the historic ensemble. Music from the early 60's and from today: composers who use 'forbidden' devices, like melody, transparent diatonic structure, rock riffs mixed in with 'harsh' sounds, noise &c. A good taste of Czech Post/Avantgarde. VINAO, ALEJANDRO: Hildegards's Dream - MUSIDISC 244942 - £15.50 WEHOWSKY, RALF: Nameless Victims - MKCD 020 - £4.25 WESTERCAMP, HILDERGARD: Transformations - IMED 9631 - £12.50 An interesting electroacoustic collection by soundscape specialist HW, using excellent field recordings, realtime performance and electronic manipulations. Especially successful are 'A walk through the city', Fantasie for Horns (exquisite) and 'Beneath the Forest Floor'. Unusual and tightly focused works. WISHART, TREVOR: The Vox Cycle - OTP 904 - £12 Performed by Electric Phoenix. This is the legendary 6-part cycle centred on the human Voice, raw, radically treated and processed. For vocal quartet, Bass and Tape; the work of 8 years. This covers an enormous amount of ground, and bears the marks of the years of its completion. By Vox 5 there is much radical processing and morphing as the whole ground becomes inherently unstable (this piece also appeared on one of our quarterlies). By Vox 6 we are in rock, dance, chaos territory, a wholly radical opposition to the story so far. And so over the top it's dizzying. WISHART, TREVOR: Tongues of Fire - OTP 001 - £12 WISHART, TREVOR & FRIENDS: Beach Singularity, Menagerie - PD 03 - £11.50 WOLFF, CHRISTIAN: Piano Works 1976-83 - MODE 43 - £12 WOLFF, CHRISTIAN: I Like to think of Harriet Tubman - MODE 69 - £12 WOOD, JAMES: Village Burial With Fire/Spirit - MODE 51 - £12 Two excellent percussion pieces for ensembles of existing and invented instruments - exploring microtonality and sustain as well as great ensemble rhythm construction. Unlike nearly all 'classical' percussion works in both aesthetic and resources - falls rather somewhere between Partch, Afro-America, Asian traditional and an imagined complex tribal society in a parallel universe. Highly recommended. XENAKIS: Ensemble Music 2 - MODE 56 - £12 XENAKIS/VARESE: Vol 3: Dammershein, Ameriques etc - MODE 58 - £12 XENAKIS: Persepolis - Fractal OX - £12 The 1971 Tape Music classic, from the long deleted and rare Phillips LP series "Prospective 21 siecle", available here for the first time uninterrupted. Xenakis only made seven electro acoustic pieces and this was the longest. Historic. ZANESI, CHRISTIAN: Stop ! L'Horizon, Profil-Desir - INA C2001 - £15.50 Quietly revolutionary, long, transforming, organic 'movements' of exquisite clarity and quality but of an austerity and alien-ness that only settles after some listening. Its length is part of its power; it stands for itself and refuses the commonplaces of modern genres. ZANESI, CHRISTIAN: Grand Bruit - MKCD 011 - £4.25 ZBAR, MICHAEL: Novum Organum etc. - MUSIDISC 244982 - £15.50 Back to Electroacoustic page 1. Back to index |